Former music director Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in music by Anatoly Lyadov, Julia Adolphe, and Modest Mussorgsky before welcoming mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato to perform an excerpt from Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été.
Performances of Mahler, Mendelssohn, Ives, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky round out this varied program.
Music conducted by Alan Gilbert unless otherwise noted.
Anatoly Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake
Gustav Mahler: Overture and Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
George Szell, conductor
Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Julia Adolphe: Dark Sand, Sifting Light
Igor Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
Leonard Bernstein
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Hector Berlioz: Au Cimetière: Clair de lune from Les Nuits d’été Op. 7
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Gustav Mahler: IV: Night Music: Andante amoroso from Symphony No. 7
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Anatoly Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake
